Index
A
- abstract contracts / Abstract contracts
- Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) / Diving into K8s
- Amazon Web Services / Introduction to cloud computing
- arrays / Arrays
- atomic swap smart contracts
- USD, locking / Atomic swap smart contracts
- for USD / Atomic swap smart contracts
- Automated Clearing House (ACH) / Settlement and clearance of InterBank transfers
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) / Diving into K8s
B
- Bank Identifier Code (BIC) / Settlement and clearance of InterBank transfers
- BigchainDB / BigchainDB
- BigNumber.js library / BigNumber.js
- binary Merkle tree / What is a Merkle tree?
- blockchain
- advantages / What is a blockchain?
- forking / What is forking in blockchain?
- blockchain interoperability
- about / Understanding blockchain interoperability
- implementation strategies / Strategies for implementing blockchain interoperability
- Block Collider / Understanding blockchain interoperability
- Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) / Understanding Byzantine Fault Tolerance
C
- cell phone number
- using, as identity / Using a cell phone number as identity
- centralized EMR management systems
- versus decentralized EMR management systems / Centralized versus decentralized EMR management systems
- client, for ownership contract
- building / Building a client for the ownership contract
- project structure / The project structure
- backend, building / Building the backend
- frontend, building / Building the frontend
- testing / Testing the client
- cloud computing
- about / Introduction to cloud computing
- advantages / Introduction to cloud computing
- cloud provider / IaaS versus PaaS and SaaS
- cloud solutions
- comparing / Private versus public versus hybrid cloud
- consensus protocol / Understanding Byzantine Fault Tolerance
- consortium DApp / What is a DApp?
- constellation
- about / Private contracts and constellation
- installing / Installing Quorum and constellation
- containers / What are containers?
- contract events
- retrieving / Retrieving and listening to contract events
- listening to / Retrieving and listening to contract events
- contracts
- creating, new operator used / Creating contracts using the new operator
- features / Features of contracts
- compiling / Compiling and deploying contracts
- deploying / Compiling and deploying contracts
- working with / Working with contracts
- Corda
- about / Corda
- transaction validity / Transaction validity
- CorDapps / Corda
- Cosmos / Understanding blockchain interoperability
D
- DApp
- advantages / What is a DApp?
- requisites / What is a DApp?
- examples / What is a DApp?
- architecting, for EMRs / Architecting DApp for EMRs
- building / Building the DApp
- DApp, for EMRs
- smart contracts for access control / Smart contracts for identity and access control
- smart contracts for identity / Smart contracts for identity and access control
- Python scripts, writing for testing smart contracts / Writing Python and JS scripts for testing
- JS scripts, writing for testing smart contracts / Writing Python and JS scripts for testing
- Database as a Service (DBaaS) / IaaS versus PaaS and SaaS
- data locations, Solidity / Data locations in Solidity
- data types, Solidity
- about / The different types of data
- arrays / Arrays
- strings / Strings
- decentralized EMR management systems
- versus centralized EMR management systems / Centralized versus decentralized EMR management systems
- delete operator / The delete operator
- deployments
- creating / Creating deployments and services
- Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG) / InterPlanetary File System
- Distributed Hash Table (DHT) / InterPlanetary File System
- Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) / What is a blockchain?
- Docker
- about / Introduction to Docker
- reference, for installation instructions / Building a Hello World Docker container
- registry / Pushing images to Docker Hub
- repository / Pushing images to Docker Hub
- tag / Pushing images to Docker Hub
- Dockerfile
- working / Building a Hello World Docker container
- Docker Hub
- about / Introduction to Docker
- images, pushing to / Pushing images to Docker Hub
- Docker image
- building / Building a Hello World Docker container
E
- election timeout / Raft consensus
- Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) / Settlement and clearance of InterBank transfers
- Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)
- DApp, architecting for / Architecting DApp for EMRs
- elementary types / Conversion between elementary types
- Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) / Ethereum accounts
- EMR data management and sharing systems
- ether
- about / Overview of Quorum
- sending / Sending ether
- Ethereum / Ethereum
- Ethereum accounts / Ethereum accounts
- ether units / Ether units
- Everledger / Everledger
- exceptions / Exceptions
- external function call / External function calls
F
- fallback function / The fallback function
- features, contracts
- visibility / Visibility
- function modifiers / Function modifiers
- fallback function / The fallback function
- inheritance / Inheritance
- FedCoin
- building / Building a FedCoin
- fiat currency
- digitalizing / Digitalizing fiat currency
- fork
- about / What is forking in blockchain?
- regular fork / What is forking in blockchain?
- soft fork / What is forking in blockchain?
- forking
- in blockchain / What is forking in blockchain?
- function modifiers / Function modifiers
G
- genesis block / Overview of Quorum
- globally-available variables
- block and transaction properties / Globally-available variables, Block and transaction properties
- address-type-related variables / Address-type-related variables
- contract-related variables / Contract-related variables
- gossip data dissemination protocol / Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
H
- hash locking / Hash locking
- hash table / Mappings
- Hello World app
- deploying, on K8s / Deploying the Hello World app on k8s
- Hello World Docker container
- building / Building a Hello World Docker container
- hybrid cloud / Private versus public versus hybrid cloud
- Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
- about / Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
- reference / Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
- Hyperledger Sawtooth / Hyperledger Sawtooth
I
- IBFT network
- building / Building your first IBFT network
- genesis block, creating / Creating a genesis block
- nodes, starting / Starting nodes
- validator, adding / Adding or removing a validator dynamically
- validator, removing / Adding or removing a validator dynamically
- IBFT tools
- installing / Installing IBFT tools
- images
- pushing, to Docker Hub / Pushing images to Docker Hub
- Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) / Settlement and clearance of InterBank transfers
- implementation strategies, blockchain interoperability
- single custodian / Single custodian
- multisignature federation / Multisignature federation
- sidechain / Sidechains or relays
- relays / Sidechains or relays
- hash locking / Hash locking
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) / IaaS versus PaaS and SaaS
- inheritance / Inheritance
- integrity / Proof of existence, integrity, and ownership contract
- InterBank transfers
- Interledger / Understanding blockchain interoperability
- internal function call / External function calls
- interoperable blockchains
- achieving / What can interoperable blockchains achieve?
- InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) / InterPlanetary File System
- Istanbul Byzantine Fault Tolerence
- about / Istanbul Byzantine Fault Tolerence
- reference / Istanbul Byzantine Fault Tolerence
K
- K8s
- about / Diving into K8s
- benefits / Diving into K8s
- resource objects / Getting into resource objects
- deployment / Deployments and pods
- pods / Deployments and pods
- services / Services
- Ingress controllers / Ingress controllers and resources
- resources / Ingress controllers and resources
- secrets / ConfigMaps and secrets
- ConfigMaps / ConfigMaps and secrets
- bind mount / Bind mounts and volumes
- persistence volumes / Bind mounts and volumes
- labels / Labels and selectors
- selectors / Labels and selectors
- Hello World app, deploying on / Deploying the Hello World app on k8s
- K8s dashboard
- accessing / Accessing the K8s dashboard
- K8s master exposes APIs
- nodes, creating / Creating nodes using the K8s APIs
- Keccak-256 hash / Ethereum accounts
- Key Management Service (KMS) / The NuCypher PRE library
- kubectl command
- download link / Installing minikube on Windows
L
- LevelDB / What is a blockchain?
- libraries
- light client verification technology / Sidechains or relays
M
- macOS
- minikube, installing on / Installing minikube on macOS
- mappings / Mappings
- Merkle root / What is a Merkle tree?
- Merkle tree / What is a Merkle tree?, Sidechains or relays
- microservices architecture
- Microsoft Azure / Introduction to cloud computing
- minikube
- installing, on macOS / Installing minikube on macOS
- installing, on Ubuntu / Installing minikube on Ubuntu
- installing, on Windows / Installing minikube on Windows
- starting / Starting minikube
- stopping / Stopping and deleting minikube
- deleting / Stopping and deleting minikube
- status, checking / Minikube status
- MultiChain / MultiChain
- multiple values
- returning / Returning multiple values
N
- network permissioning
- in Quorum / Network permissioning in Quorum
- new operator
- contracts, creating / Creating contracts using the new operator
- nodes
- creating, K8s master exposes APIs used / Creating nodes using the K8s APIs
- NuCypher PRE library
- about / The NuCypher PRE library
- installing / Installing the library
- using / Using the library
O
- one-to-one pegs / What can interoperable blockchains achieve?
- Oraclize / Single custodian
- orderer / Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
- OSN / Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
- ownership contract / Proof of existence, integrity, and ownership contract
P
- paper-based medical records
- Parity / Parity
- payment system
- overview / Overview of the payment system
- permissioned blockchain, use cases
- Everledger / Popular blockchain use cases, Everledger
- Walmart's food tracking / Walmart's food tracking
- Ghana's land registry / Ghana's land registry
- Dubai's housing rental / Dubai's housing rental
- Project Ubin / Project Ubin
- permissioned blockchain platforms
- about / Popular permissioned blockchain platforms
- Ethereum / Ethereum
- Quorum / Quorum
- Parity / Parity
- MultiChain / MultiChain
- Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 / Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
- BigchainDB / BigchainDB
- InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) / InterPlanetary File System
- Corda / Corda
- Hyperledger Sawtooth / Hyperledger Sawtooth
- permissioned DApp / What is a DApp?
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) / IaaS versus PaaS and SaaS
- Polkadot / Understanding blockchain interoperability
- PRE
- data privacy, ensuring in blockchain / Ensuring data privacy in a blockchain using PRE
- private blockchain / What is a blockchain?
- private cloud / Private versus public versus hybrid cloud
- private contracts / Private contracts and constellation
- private transactions
- downsides / Private contracts and constellation
- Project Ubin / Project Ubin
- Proof-of-Authority (PoA) / Understanding Byzantine Fault Tolerance
- Proof-of-Stake (PoS) / Understanding Byzantine Fault Tolerance
- Proof-of-Work (PoW) / Understanding Byzantine Fault Tolerance
- Proof of Concepts (PoCs) / BigchainDB
- Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET) / Hyperledger Sawtooth
- proof of existence / Proof of existence, integrity, and ownership contract
- public cloud / Private versus public versus hybrid cloud
- public DApp / What is a DApp?
Q
- QaaS
- building / Building QaaS
- QNM
- working / How does QNM work?
- containerizing / Containerizing QNM
- deployment, creating / Creating QNM deployment and service mainfest files
- service mainfest files, creating / Creating QNM deployment and service mainfest files
- queued transaction / Sending ether
- Quorum
- about / Quorum
- overview / Overview of Quorum
- installing / Installing Quorum and constellation
- network permissioning / Network permissioning in Quorum
- Quorum Network Manager (QNM)
- about / Building QaaS
- reference / Building QaaS
- Quorum networks
- building / Building the network
R
- Raft consensus / Raft consensus
- Raft network
- building / Build your first Raft network
- constellation network setup / Setting up a constellation network
- enodes, generating / Generating enodes
- account, creating / Creating an account
- genesis block, creating / Creating the genesis block
- nodes, starting / Starting nodes
- nodes, adding / Adding or removing nodes dynamically
- nodes, removing / Adding or removing nodes dynamically
- Recursive Length Prefix (RLP)
- reference / Compiling and deploying contracts
- regular fork / What is forking in blockchain?
- relays / Sidechains or relays
- resource objects, K8s / Getting into resource objects
- resources, K8s API
- functions / Getting into resource objects
- Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) / Ethereum accounts
S
- services
- creating / Creating deployments and services
- sidechain / Sidechains or relays
- Simple Byzantine Fault Tolerance (SBFT) / Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
- smart contract
- about / Overview of Quorum
- structure / The structure of a smart contract
- fiat currency, digitalizing / Smart contracts to digitalize fiat currency, Building the DApp
- testing / Testing
- Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT)
- reference / Settlement and clearance of InterBank transfers
- soft fork / What is forking in blockchain?
- Software as a Service (SaaS) / IaaS versus PaaS and SaaS
- Solidity
- about / Overview of Quorum
- data locations / Data locations in Solidity
- data types / The different types of data
- Solidity source files
- about / Solidity source files
- importing / Importing other Solidity source files
- StatefulSets / Bind mounts and volumes
- strings / Strings
- super keyword / The super keyword
- Swarm / Introduction to web3.js
T
- transaction / What are Ethereum transactions?
- transaction endorsement / Hyperledger Fabric 1.0
- transaction fees / What are Ethereum transactions?
- Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) / Hyperledger Sawtooth
- two-way pegs / What can interoperable blockchains achieve?
U
- Ubuntu
- minikube, installing on / Installing minikube on Ubuntu
- Unspent Transaction Outputs (UTXO) / What are UTXOs?
- user accounts
- representing / Representation of user accounts
- using for directive / using for
V
- var
- using / Using var
- VirtualBox
- download link / Installing minikube on Windows
- Virtual Machines (VMs)
- provisioning / What are containers?
W
- web3.js
- about / Introduction to web3.js
- reference / Introduction to web3.js
- importing / Importing web3.js
- connecting, to nodes / Connecting to nodes
- API structure / The API structure
- unit conversion / Unit conversion
- gas price, retrieving / Retrieving gas price, balance, and transaction details
- address balance, retrieving / Retrieving gas price, balance, and transaction details
- transaction details, retrieving / Retrieving gas price, balance, and transaction details
- ether, sending / Sending ether
- Whisper / Introduction to web3.js
- Windows
- minikube, installing on / Installing minikube on Windows
- worker nodes / Diving into K8s